1993 Mumbai Bomb blasts

Considering that any information on the fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim can prove substantial for India, a man from Gujarat's Vadodara has claimed that he has hacked the call details of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts mastermind which he will hand over to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In the wake of the execution of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon last week, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis demanding "swift action" on the findings of the Srikrishna Commission.

Controversy over execution of 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon found its echo in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Wednesday with the Sena-BJP demanding that Congress MLAs who have sent a letter to the President seeking commutation of his death sentence to life, be booked for treason.

A day after Asaduddin Owaisi said that 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon is being hanged only because he belongs to a particular religion, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Majeed Memon on Friday refused to back the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief's stand.

Triggering controversy over capital punishment to Yakub Memon in Mumbai blasts case, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday sought to know whether the perpetrators of demolition of disputed structure in Ayodhya, communal riots of Mumbai and Gujarat and other such sensational cases would get a similar punishment.

Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, who has sought a stay of execution of his death sentence scheduled for July 30, on Thursday spent some time with his family members, including wife and daughter, at the Central Prison here amid tight security.

The family members of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, who has become the sole accused to get capital punishment for the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, had also been figured as accused in the case. Some of them were, however, discharged due to lack of evidence.

Two weeks after he was granted a month-long parole, Sanjay Dutt was Saturday released from Pune`s Yerwada Jail even as the controversy over "frequency" at which he is getting leave from jail refuses to die down.

Quashing speculation, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil Friday asserted he has not received any communication from the central government on the issue of granting a remission of sentence or pardon to incarcerated actor Sanjay Dutt.

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who was sentenced to five years in Yerwada jail for illegal possession of arms in relation to the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, has been granted 14-day parole for medical reasons.